Summer nights
Smoking swishers and tickle fights
Roadtrips galore
loving me some more
Still to this day I wonder
what ever happened to the full, equipped love
Rainy days, my heart just like thunder
beating harder as your face appears my mind
and these thoughts stained
of you leaving me behind
just to store all your emotions and worries inside those little teardrops
Feel your worries and pain roll down your cheeks
Refresh your eyes and soul, time to restore with positive emotions
He smelled like dirty hair and cold woods
He was always barefoot and the soles of his feet were always stained with soil and the earth
His eyes immersed the color of the moon and sea foam
His laugh was quirky and his teeth were crooked
His nose was big and he always snorted
His jeans were to his knees and his flannels almost smelled like campfire, cold air and his body odor
His fingernails contained dirt and his body was skinny blended with sexy muscles
He had pretty milky complexion mixed with freckles big and small
His breath smelled like weed, cherry salsa and fresh grass
He was imperfectly flawless
of us the day we fell in love
two peas in a pod
two singing love doves
When we ran into the lake
all natural and bare
Falling in love was such a mistake
you should’ve warned me, stop, beware
The days I spent napping on your chest
memorizing the vibrations of your heartbeat
Smoking swishers, tickling, what next
Our bodies buried and lost in the bedsheets
keeping us warm, hot marshmallows and body heat
I used to count all your freckles and lashes
all your flaws, pimples and mismatches
Each combining together so perfectly
everyday your beauty truthfully hypnotizing me
Now tell me about the dream where we meet again
please keep close and promise me
this isn’t the end
This is so beautiful/cool!
“What is Cob?”
Cob is a traditional building technique using clay, sand, straw and water- wet enough to shape, yet dry enough to build up without forms. The clay acts as the glue, while the sand gives strength to the mixture and the straw gives the walls tensile strength once hardened into place. It dries to a hardness similar to lean concrete and is used like adobe to create self supporting, load bearing walls. A cob house is essentially monolithic. This with it’s curved walls gives them greater strength in earthquakes. Earth is an abundant resource that can produce beautiful and sustainable homes with a minimal footprint.
Most of the materials used for building an earth house are unprocessed, natural and local products such as sand, clay, straw and recycled materials.
Cob invites creativity to be expressed in the process of building your space. Because cob is very flexible to work with, you are able to create just about any shape, curves, arches, shelves, benches, niches, fireplaces and ovens.
Earth homes are cool in summer, warm in winter. Cob’s resistance to rain and cold makes it ideally suited to cold, rainy climates like the Pacific Northwest, and to desert conditions.
History of Cob
COB is not a new material it is a building material that has been around for centuries. The word cob comes from an Old English root meaning a rounded mass or lump. It was started in England around the 13th century from other types of earth building techniques like adobe, sod, rammed earth, straw-clay, and wattle-and-daub just to name a few. Thousands of cob houses have weathered rainy England for hundreds of years.. Earth is probably still the world’s most common building material. With recent rises in the price of lumber and increasing interest in natural and environmentally safe building practices, cob is enjoying a renaissance. In this age of environmental degradation, dwindling natural resources, and chemical toxins hidden in our homes, doesn’t it make sense to return to nature’s most abundant, cheap and healthy building material?
What are the advantages of building with cob?
- Cob is gentle on the planet. Earth is non-toxic and completely recyclable, creates no waste, and requires minimal tools to construct.
- “Buildability” – Cob homes are owner built. It is easy to learn, cob is a very flexible and forgiving medium.There is obviously, quite a bit of labor involved but if time is not a factor, a house of this type could be built with just a couple of workers. Basic carpentry, plumbing and electric skills are required.
- It is Affordable and Inexpensive – The walls of the home are made entirely of natural resources that are available under your feet.
- Fire proof
- Cob is very durable and requires little upkeep
- Energy Efficiency – A cob house provides a large amount of thermal mass. This helps keep the house cool in the summer and warm in the winter. It is ideal for passive solar homes.
- Fun – If you like playing in the mud, this is the house for you. Seriously, this is an excellent style of house to build for those with imagination. You can be very creative with the walls of your house. Also a Safe building material with kids.
who wants to do this with me?
(via cooljeweledmoon)
